Improvement in fur tassels



JOHN SCHMID.

Fur Tassel.

Patented Marc h 12, 1872.

JOHN SOHMID, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GUSTAV W. BROSTROM, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FUR TASSELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,633, dated March 12, 1872.

To all to whom theseprcsents shall come:

Be it known that I, J OHN SoHMn), of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Fur Tassel; and that the following is a full, clear, and exact (lescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanying plate of drawing.

The present'invention relates to a tassel made from fur, as and-in a manner to be hereinafter described, for use upon fur muffs, cloaks, 850.. in place of the braided tassel heretofore ordinarily used.

In the accompanying plate of drawing, my improved fur tassel is illustrated-Figure 1 being a side view; Fig. 2, a central vertical section and partial side view of the tassel Fig. 3, a cross-section in plane of lines 50 a, Fig. 2.

A in the drawing represents my improved fur tassel, to which B is the body, and O loose fleece of wool secured thereto. The body B is made from fur-skin in two parts, D and E. The part D is a band forming the lower portion of the tassel body, and it is made by taking a strip of skin 'of the requisite width and length and doubling it upon itself in its length, and then sewing its ends together. This band part D forms the lower portion of the tassel body, and within its end a the loose wool fleece.

O is secured by sewing or otherwise. The part E isthe stem of the tassel body, and it is secured by stitching in the opposite end of band D to that receiving the loose Wool fleece C. This stem E is, in the present instance, made from a strip of fur-skins joined by stitching end to end, and then moistened and twisted from end to end, as shown in Fig. 2 more particularly, which twist it retains as the skin dries, leaving an eye, I), at one end, by which, as is obvious, it can be suspended at pleasure from the muff, cloak, &c. The stem E, in lieu of being twisted, may be straight but a twist is preferable. On the stem E, to relieve its appearance, is a loose collar, G, made from fur-skin. This collar G is made of two continuous rings, f, of fur-skin, that are joined together side by side by sewing, giving a good wide collar, G".

In the manufacture of these fur tassels it is not intended to limit the invention to the use of any particular kind of fur, or to any particular design or form for the same, the invention consisting of a tassel made of fur in any of the ordinary modes of manufacture of furskins into goods.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a tassel composed of a body, B, having parts D E made of fur-skin, and a loose fleece, O, secured to part D of body B, the whole substantially as described.

The above specification of my improved fur tassel signed by me this 25th day of January, A. D. 1872.

' JOHN SCHMID.

itnesses EDWIN W. BRowN, ALBERT W. BROWN. 

